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XOTES ox THE WHITE-BEAKED DOLPHIN 
(LAGENORHYNCHUS ALBIROSTRISJ. 
By Thomas Southwell, E.Z S. 
Read ^ist March, 1885 . 
Through the kindness of Major Eeilden, I had the opportunity of 
examining with him a very beautiful specimen of this cetacean, 
which was captured outside the “ Knowl ” by the smack “ Boy Jim,” 
and brought into Yarmouth on the 15th of the present month. 
It was a female measuring 5 ft. 7 in. in length, and so precisely 
similar both in outline and colouration to the individual figured 
and described by Mr. Clark in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological 
Society’ for 1876 (p. 686 ), that it is useless to repeat a description 
which. has already been so fully and accurately rendered. 
So little is known with regard to the distribution and life- 
history of the great majority of -the Cetaceans, that the slightest 
contribution to the scanty information on the subject is of interest, 
and as this handsome species, although not many years since 
considered of great rarit}’, has now occurred some score times on the 
British coasts, — in the majority of instances in our orvn count}’’, 
but also several times both to the north and south of us, — it may 
bo worth while to summarize these occurrences with a view to 
ascertaining whether the}" will throw any light on its habits and 
distribution. 
Commencing with tlid South, the most southerly locality with 
Which I ain aCrpiainted is Bnmsgate, I rvill therefore give the British 
localities first, and for cbhveniblice of reference arrange thelli in a 
tabular form. 
